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The Adventures of Tugboat Annie

★ 7.9 160 votes 1957–present 1 season · 38 episodes Ended
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Starring
Minerva UrecalWalter SandeDon OrlandoEric ClaveringStan FrancisHugh Webster
Starring
Minerva UrecalWalter SandeDon OrlandoEric ClaveringStan FrancisHugh Webster

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The Adventures of Tugboat Annie is a 1957 Canadian-filmed television series starring Minerva Urecal as Annie Brennan, the role originated by Marie Dressler in the 1933 screen classic Tugboat Annie. Urecal was the fourth actress to portray Tugboat Annie; the others were Dressler, Marjorie Rambeau in Tugboat Annie Sails Again, and Jane Darwell in Captain Tugboat Annie. Norman Reilly Raine's stories of the salty tugboat captain Annie Brennan, a character based on the life of Thea Foss, first appeared in prose form in the weekly US journal Saturday Evening Post in the late 1920s. She was soon developed into a movie character, depicted in three films, portrayed by a different actress in each. Finally, in 1954, a television series was commissioned by the independent American production company TPA. The pilot took two whole years to complete, at a then-record cost of $129,000. Elsa Lanchester, Jay C. Flippen, and Chill Wills were all in line for major roles at one point or another at this early stage. The series was filmed in Toronto harbor and was first shown in Canada, having attracted ratings good enough to interest American television stations. What had succeeded in Canada proved a disappointment in the United States, where the viewing audiences had presumably become accustomed to greater sophistication than the simplistic humor of this series.

All Seasons

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Season 11958
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EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Home Is the Sailor—
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▶2Queen Annie—
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▶3Tugboat Annie's Chicken Farm—
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▶4Sophisticated Annie—
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▶5Tugboat Annie, Psychologist—
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▶6Stowaway—
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▶7Tugboat Annie Meets the Texan—
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▶8Pizza Romance—
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▶9Commodore Bullwinkle—
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▶10Annie's Race Horse—
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▶11Annie's Retirement—
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▶12Tugboat Annie and the Admiral—
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▶13Annie Is a Lady—
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▶14Ballots and Ballast—
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▶15Happy Birthday—
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▶16Annie Finds a Baby Tug—
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▶17The Romance of Horatio Bullwinkle—
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▶18Annie's Cold Cargo—
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▶19Annie, the Smuggler—
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▶20Annie Plays Cupid—
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▶21Getting Annie's Pig—
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▶22The Chinese Formula—
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▶23The Butler Did It—
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▶24Operation Hotcake—
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▶25Community Chest Drive—
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▶26High Blonde Pressure—
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▶27Annie's Inheritance—
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▶28Delinquent—
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▶29Golden Fleece—
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▶30Bullwinkle's Folly—
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▶31The Reformation of Horatio Bullwinkle—
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▶32Smoke Screen—
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▶33Annie's Big Deal—
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▶34Lord Horatio Bullwinkle—
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▶35Tugboat Annie's Treasure Hunt—
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▶36A Medal for Annie—
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▶37The Sixth Santa—
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▶38Pinto's Pancake Heaven—
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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Minerva Urecal Tugboat Annie Brennan
Walter Sande Capt. Horatio Bullwinkle, Bullwinkle
Don Orlando Pinto
Eric Clavering Shiftless
Stan Francis Severn, Murdoch McArdle, Murdock Severn
Hugh Webster Tim, Sid
Don Baker Fogerty
John Paris Mullins
James Barron Jake
Bud Browning Tony

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